Granito Group Board

Antonio Ermírio de Moraes Neto

Shareholder Investor

Antonio is a co-founder and partner at Vox Capital, Brazil’s first venture capital fund manager dedicated to impact investing. Vox invests in innovative and scalable companies with solutions that generate disproportionate social impact for low-income communities while delivering attractive financial returns.

He is also Brazil’s representative to the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group.

Before creating Vox Capital, Antonio championed several high-impact entrepreneurship initiatives. He founded and led the social-business oriented family fund of the Votorantim Group, one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Latin America.

His education includes a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a graduation in Public Administration at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-SP), and studies in entrepreneurship at Babson College in Boston and in private equity at the University of California, Berkeley.

He was laureate with the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award, elected as a Fellow of the Americas Business Council Leadership Forum, and selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Brazil (Época magazine, 2012) and as one of the 25 Brazilians to Watch (Financial Times, 2013). In 2013 he was profiled by Forbes magazine and lauded for “forging a new path” in finance.